(a.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.
(n.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time there is a low activity in post-central and temporal "afferent" (sensory-gnostic) cortical areas.
(2) These documents were then compared with the 'Seven sermons', and numerous affinities noted between it and the Gnostic texts.
(3) The MRT expresses the degree of gnostic disturbances by means of a point system.
(4) "As a secularist with Gnostic proclivities," he writes, "and above all as a literary aesthete, I preach Bardolatry as the most benign of all religions."
(5) The authors describe gnostic rings, an additional technique, that is useful for clinical sensibility testing, as well as for sensory reeducation.
(6) Decisive syndromal points of view are: a) there is an absence of significant audiological deficiencies; b) errors of the acoustic-discriminative type prevail in auditory-visual matching tasks; c) the gnostic deficit is modality specific; d) the same items are variably reproduced on repeated presentation; e) there is marked fluctuation of performance; f) there is exceptional irreversibility of the impairment; g) amusia is a more or less obligatory accompanying phenomenon; h) in cases of vascular origin there is always a history of repeated temporal lobe damage, this damage being predominantly in the form of bilateral lesions.
(7) Inflow of potassium ions into the alga Hydrodictyon reticulatum is reduced in the dark, the reduction being accompanied by a change in the selectivity pattern with respect to alkali metal ions, observed in competition experiments and evaluated by the gnostic analysis as described by Kovanic.
(8) It is not enough to assume that because Jung chose the pseudonym of Basilides, he was necessarily Jung's primary Gnostic influence.
(9) Thus it becomes evident that there is epistemologically a fundamental difference between the so-called gnostic and the agnostic standpoint, between the psychoanalytical and the phenomenological approach.
(10) Findings of this study suggest that the connection between the gnostic units of expression and the gnostic units of verbal labeling is not impaired significantly among the dementia patients.
(11) Clinical features deviating from the usual pattern included: no psychosis, no measurable dementia, no dwarfism, no microcephaly, no (marked) involuntary movements, but conspicuous generalised muscle atrophy and denervation, impairment of vital and gnostic sensation, thoracolumbar vertebral anomalies, and aplasia of os coccygis.
(12) The cells of the highest stage eventually become "gnostic cells", whose response shows the final result of the pattern-recognition of the network.
(13) The results have been compared with 101 patients without consideration of all gnostic defects.
(14) However, the most important are signs which definitely correspond to the specificity of the lateralization of the gnostical functions.
(15) The main outcome of the experiments described in the paper is an idea on the gnostic cortical microset.
(16) Bloom, the "Jewish Gnostic heretic" and dedicated follower of Emerson, observes that "sublime literature demands an emotional not an economic investment", and, for himself, declares he is ready to submit, with reservations, to being described as "a theorist of the American Sublime".
(17) While there is no way of knowing precisely what Jung was thinking when he wrote the 'Seven sermons', it is clear that he was well acquainted not only with the work of Basilides, but also with the work of other Gnostic thinkers.
(18) Religious metaphors are rife in these conversations about bread, cheese and coffee – these everyday items have been elevated to gnostic mysteries.
(19) As Luria has noted, the gnostic disturbances associated with damages of the right hemisphere are "the remarkable absence of perception of the patient of his own defects; .
(20) It is shown that preservation of connections of cortical gnostic zones with verbal structures of the left hemisphere is the obligatory condition for consciousness functioning.
Spiritual
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; -- opposed to carnal.
(a.) Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
(n.) A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) She is not: "Religion has nothing to do with spirituality."
(2) In turn, nursing strategies that are selected as a result of such theoretically based assessments are likely to be effective in preventing spiritual distress.
(3) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(4) Only recently has the spiritual aspect of care received attention in our professional literature.
(5) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
(6) Participant observation among white, middle class spiritual healing groups in the Baltimore area (1981-1983) revealed distinct sociocultural and interpersonal patterns of action and influence among two types of groups found.
(7) He called for care for the environment to be added to the seven spiritual works of mercy outlined in the Gospel that the faithful are asked to perform throughout the pope’s year of mercy in 2016.
(8) This article presents a conceptualization of health as consisting of social, mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical components; a conceptualization of wellness as the integration of these components; and a conceptualization of high-level wellness as the balance of these components.
(9) Caring for persons with AIDS calls upon a range of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual interventions that, in the absence of a cure, can make a palpable difference for patients.
(10) Aristotle clearly regarded this as a spiritual development also.
(11) I relate this clinical observation to the idea of non-attachment as found in spiritual tradition, and I draw on the work of Bion and Matte Blanco to locate these ideas within psychoanalytic theory.
(12) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(13) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
(14) We are a nation in a state of transition, and, whatever you believe about the spiritual dimension of Mount Kinabalu, it’s important for all Malaysians that tourists treat us with respect.
(15) Some of this stems from confusing spirituality with religion.
(16) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
(17) However, mainstream spiritual leaders have denied that the practice stems from religion.
(18) By the beginning of the 1960s the American press began to see Salinger's refusal to engage with the public as a provocation, while critics became increasingly impatient with the spiritual worries of the Glass family.
(19) The cross-gender status of the acaults is sanctioned by their spiritual marriage to Manguedon.
(20) They are regarded as symbols of the spiritual environment.